I don't understand your question completely but openelec is accesible with eg filezilla. Use sftp://192.168.0.xx and root=login, openelec=password. Port used is 22. Importantly, enable ssh during the installation process when asked! Does this help you?

What I need to be able to do is download from my seedbox to my media centre. I've been using lftp for the last few years. A command line utility that I would leave running within 'screen'.
I noticed an addon called 'jdownloader'. Maybe that would work?

lftp is great, as it has a queue function and runs in the background when you exit. You can restart it at any time and check the queue. I found this post because I was looking how to install lftp on my openelec pi.

Screen is also incredibly useful but in this case I don't see the advantage and half the time I forget to exit a screen session and have a few floating around doing nothing.

Thank you so much. Sorry for disappearing for a few months. v3 took me out of hiding! And your binaries still work great. I created a folder in storage (/storage/bin), dumped files in there, chmod'ed them and added folder to path. All good.

lftp is great, as it has a queue function and runs in the background when you exit. You can restart it at any time and check the queue. I found this post because I was looking how to install lftp on my openelec pi.

Screen is also incredibly useful but in this case I don't see the advantage and half the time I forget to exit a screen session and have a few floating around doing nothing.

Mark

I love lftp, and I also like to be able to jump back into a screen and see how a download is progressing without having to call it back. I also find I often have a couple of screens running, one DL into my Film folder and the other to TV. I know all of this can be done from within lftp and backgrounded whilst I swap between folders but I just find the workflow with screen that much more fluid.